notebooks

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Extend Your Battery Life With The Right Browser

8:00AM Azadeh Ensha | It’s tough to get things done on your laptop when your battery’s gone dead. We previously showed you some ways to score more battery juice, but as it turns out, using the right browser can also help. More »
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Netbooks Rapidly Grabbing Notebook Market Share

3:00PM Angus Kidman | It’s well-recognised that notebook sales are now outstripping desktop PCs, but within the notebook category, netbooks are also claiming an increasing chunk of the market. More »
Travel

Belkin Flythru Might Help With Airport Security

8:30AM Angus Kidman | Airport security makes you remove your laptop for screening so it doesn’t get confused with an explosive device. Belkin’s Flythru laptop bag theoretically removes that annoyance by placing your laptop in a see-through compartment so that the harried airport staff can see you’re packing Mac rather than mace. More »
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Get Better Advice By Taking Notes

7:00AM Adam Pash | We’d like to think that the people we’re paying to give us advice (like doctors, for example) would offer the same helpful advice no matter what, but reader citizenkahn writes in to suggest that if you really want to get good advice, pull out a notebook and start taking notes—a phenomenon he’s dubbed the Moleskine effect. More »
Travel

The Notebook Airline Test

4:30PM Angus Kidman | Battery life is crucial, but there’s an equally important test for any notebook that’s going to get regularly used on a plane: is it small enough to fit on the tray, allow typing when there’s someone sitting next to you and not end up half-closed when the person in front reclines their seat? More »
Travel

HLO: Choosing The Right Notebook PC For Travel

6:36PM Angus Kidman | For the most part, Hand Luggage Only was designed to use gear I already had, but there was always going to be one exception: I’d decided I’d get a new notebook PC as part of the process. More »
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DIY Cereal Box Journal Looks Great, Costs Little

4:30AM Adam Pash | Craft weblog The Long Thread walks through how to make your own attractive, customisable DIY notebooks from used cereal boxes. More »

Add Custom Printed Pages To Your Moleskine

6:00AM Adam Pash | Lifehacker readers love a good Moleskine, and now the makers of the popular durable notebook have a new online tool that can print custom pages to fit perfectly into your Moleskine. More »
Fix

DIY IKEA Floating Laptop Desk

10:00AM Angus Kidman | In a compact office space, a floating desk can be a stylish and handy solution, but dedicated units for that purpose can be expensive. Kim pulled together her own DIY solution using two cheap IKEA components: the $120 Effektiv low wall unit and the $19 Summera pull-out keyboard shelf. Add a few tricks for cord management and you’ve got a neat option taking minimal space. Hack a floating laptop table [IKEA Hacker] More »
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BatteryBar Adds A Power Meter To The Taskbar

2:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: Taskbar status application BatteryBar adds a battery life meter to the Windows taskbar with detailed battery life information and eye candy in a mouseover dialog. Once installed, activating BatteryBar is as simple as right-clicking on the taskbar and choosing Toolbars -> BatteryBar from the menu. The meter button changes from blue to green when you are on battery power, and clicking on the meter button switches the display between actual time remaining or a percentage view. The percentage meter is calculated using a statistical prediction that keeps a history of how quickly your battery usually drains to more accurately predict battery life—so the time remaining may seem a little odd at first.BatteryBar is a free download for Windows only. If you would rather put your battery meter on your desktop, check out previously mentioned Power Meter Plus. BatteryBar [via Download Squad] More »